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c. W. CARL CHICKEN HOVER Filed Aug. 28, 1924 'arle 06H00,

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UNITED STATES] jlfATENT oFFIc CHARLES WATTS CAROL, or GLoBE, AnIzoNA.

CHICKEN HovER.

l Application mea August 28,1924. serial'iNo. v4,e54.

To all whom t may Concern Be it knownthat CHARLES Globe, in the county otGila and State of 'Arizona,.has invented certainnewand use- -fullmprovements 1nCh1cken Hovers, ci'

` which-the following is-a specification.

i llining the Walls of a hover with sheep skin with the wool side toward the `chicks and with AVentilating openings formed through `-This invention` relates to -a chicken hover ofthe "character of that shown in my patent. Number .1,507,157 .issued on the'2nd dayY of r September, 1924.

The 'object ofthe-invention iste provide an A irnprovedhover whereby baby chicks `may be arti'ciallymothered without danger of the chicks to death. v Broadly stated the invention resides in bemg crowded or `smothered these skins whereby, while .the chicks will be kept warm by the wool, they will not he smothered by lack of ventilation. 1

Further objects and .advantages of the invention willbe 'set vforth in the detailed description which follows:

' In the accompanying drawings,

'Figure 1 isa longitudinal sectional viewv of a hover constructed in accordance with the invention.l

'Figure 2 is'fa transverse sectional view therethrough, and

v Adisposed with relation tothe outerb'ox as to leave a space 7 between them which extends entirely around the. box.' The air .may be exhausted from this space 7 to form a vacuum or this space may be an air space, as desired. The inner box 1s held in spaced re `lation tothe outer box by strips`8. A supL porting lattice 'oropenv work structure 9l spans the top of the inner box so asto sup-A port alayer of cotton batting 1001il such density that while the air? and gases from the chicks may seep slowly throughv said batting, .the passage of well'dened'ai'r currents, which might tend to chill thephicks, is prevented. The space between lthe'outer box, above the y'inner box,is vventilated by VA'TTs CAROL, f citizen of the 'United States, residing at.

batting from whence they may the openingsll.

' transverse openings 11 and theouter box is 'providedwlth a cover 12. Access may he had tothe inner box through, a door 13 and passageway 14. v l

S0 far as described the structure is like that of my prior patent above referred to.

Considering vnow more v particularly the diiferences by which the present structure is distinguished* from the patent lbefore referred to, attention is' directed to the inner lining of the inner box consisting of Iwire mesh 15, preferably of copper'or'like not,l

corrodible metal, said wire meshhaving its upper vand lower edges bent vat right angles. as indicated at 16 to constitute spacing ele-- ments by which the wire mesh is held in spaced relation to the inner face of the inner box. 'The purpose of this is to permit the circulation ofthe air and gases, as reprechicks. The wire mesh 15 supports sheep -skins 17.fy Theskins are pierced by a large number of' relatively small, clean'cut, -holes 18 formed through them. These holes. are so small that the chicks cannot get their heads therethrough. Said holesserve to perand the body gases to the rear of the skins.

As is best illustrated in, Figures 2 `and 3,- the wool side of the'sheep skins are disposed sented by the breath vand body gases of the mit the passage .of the breath of the chicks inwardly and the. chicks may snuggle up againstthese wooly surfaces and be 'keptf warm and comfortable.

A horizontal-web of wire indicated at 19 has a sheep skin 2O secured thereto with the wool `side disposed downwardly and thisv protects the backs'of the chicks.` The skin 19 likewise has a number of clean cut open` ings 21'ormed therethrough to permit the .passage of the breath and body gases of.' the chicks upwardly into the spacel between the vscreen 19 and the .cotton batting 10, from which space they' may `slowly seep through said-'cotton ,batting to the space above said pass through Iam aware of the fact that it has'heretofore been proposed to use sheep skins in the hovering of baby chicks but I' am not aware that it has ever -heretoorebeen proposed to designedlyforma plurality of ventilatingopenings through the skin proper in the mannerherein described or to space. the

vrear sides of the skins from the wall of the los compartment to provide for ventilation at.

lIt is to he understood that the invention is not limited to the preciseeonstruction set forth but that it includes Within its .purview lWhatever, changes fairly come'With-in eitherthe terms or the spiritofthe appended claims..

Having described'mgsv invention what I claimis: A 1. vTn Aa chicken hover a lining element consisting of a shee'p skin havinga plurality of openings formed through the skin proper, the'wool side of the skin being-'disposedt0 Ward the chick to he hovered. y

In a chicken hover, a compartmentfor the reception of the chicks to be hovered, a sheep skin having' a plurality of openings formed through the skin proper With. the

W'ool side of the. skin disposed'tovvard said compartment and means for supporting said vskin in spaced relation to the. Wall 'of :said

compartment. i

8. A structure as .recited in claim 2'Whereinsaid supporting means 'Consists 'of a wire mesh screen.

4. Astructure asfrecited 1n claim 2 Wherev in the supporting means consist of la wire mesh weh havlng lts edges-bent to form spacing elements.

5. A hover comprising a double wall compartment constituting aninner and an outer box and .a lining for the Walls of the inner compartment..consistingof sheep skin with l'the `Wool 4'side disposed toward said com- "6.' A structure as recitedv in Vclaim m.

combination with a horizontal web ,of sheen skin constituting a' cover for said compartment with the Wool side disposed down-y wardly, said lastlna'med sheep skin likewself having a plurality of openings formed therethrough.'v l

In testimony whereof he afiixes hisA signature in the presence of tvvo witnesses..

.- CHARLES WATTS-CAROL.

Witnesses p GUS WILLIAMS, D. E. RIENHARDT. 

